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- GRAFWIZ 1.5, 02/11/91:
-
- An additional VGA mode has been added, providing 360x480 in 256 colors.
- This is not a standard mode, but should work with many VGA systems.
-
- A pseudo-graphics mode has been implemented for SCREEN 0. This provides
- 80x50 graphics in text mode, which will work on any video adapter.
-
- The QLB version of the library is no longer included, to help reduce the
- size of this burgeoning package. You can create it from the LIB like so:
-
- LINK GRAFWIZ.LIB/Q/SE:512,,NUL,BQLB45
-
- See the LIBRARY.TXT and QUESTION.TXT files if this doesn't work for you.
-
- A floating-point division inadvertently slipped into the ellipse routines.
- This has been removed.
-
-
-
- GRAFWIZ 1.4, 12/24/90:
-
- An additional VGA mode has been added, providing 320x400 in 256 colors.
- This is not a standard mode, but should work with most VGA systems. It
- provides double the resolution of the usual 256-color mode, SCREEN 13.
-
- G#Get and G#Put routines are now provided for SCREEN 13 mode.
-
- Routines to draw circles and ellipses are now included.
-
- Besides screen handling, GRAFWIZ now allows you to work with an Epson
- printer as if it were a screen. The results can be previewed on a VGA.
-
- The G#Banner routines are now faster when displaying normal-sized
- characters.
-
-
-
- GRAFWIZ 1.3, 11/23/90:
-
- Support for VGA modes is now complete with the addition of routines that
- handle the high-resolution SCREEN 11 and SCREEN 12.
-
- Support for Hercules monochrome graphics (SCREEN 3) has been added. This
- is self-contained and does not require the QBHERC TSR that BASIC needs.
-
- The DEMO program has been updated for some extra flare on VGAs.
-
- New demo programs (S&B4EGA and VGABOX) have been added. These sharp
- little demos were sent to me by Mike Welch, who has very kindly given me
- permission to include them in GRAFWIZ. Note that you will need a copy of
- Crescent Software's PDQ library if you wish to recompile the sources.
-
- Several DECLARE statements needed in SCREEN 13 were left out of
- GRAFWIZ.BI. These have been added.
-
- The G#Line routines continued to be buggy, so I replaced the diagonal line
- algorithm. The new versions work fine and are faster.
-
-
-
- GRAFWIZ 1.2, 10/28/90:
-
- Support for low-resolution VGA mode (SCREEN 13) has been added.
-
- A bug in several of the G#Line routines has been fixed. Some kinds of
- lines are now drawn more smoothly as well.
-
-
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- GRAFWIZ 1.1, 09/23/90:
-
- Detection of the active display adapter type has been included.
-
- Most of the routines have been ported over to work with EGA graphics modes
- (SCREEN 7 through SCREEN 9). Other new EGA routines include set/get
- palette, set/get border color, and set blink vs background intensity.
-
- The G#Banner routines now support fonts of 8x14 and 8x16 as well as 8x8.
-
- The .MAC picture loader now allows you to specify which part of the image
- you want to load. Loading of .PCX pictures is also supported.
-
- GET and PUT replacements have been added for SCREEN 2 mode.
-
- Palette and border color selection has been added for SCREEN 1 mode. A
- side-effect of border color selection allows you to choose the foreground
- color used in SCREEN 2 mode.
-
-
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- GRAFWIZ 1.0, 08/21/90:
-
- This is the initial release of The Graphics Wizard's Library for BASIC,
- featuring:
- graphics support for SCREEN 1 and SCREEN 2 modes (CGA):
- points, lines, boxes, polygons, GET/PUT mirror images,
- full-color text, variable-sized text
- loading of .MAC pictures for SCREEN 2
- getting the current size of any SCREEN 0 (text mode) screen
- sending a screen (almost any MDA/Herc/CGA/EGA/VGA mode) to the printer
-